Test 1 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a hu…

yo did u see the tiny dudes climbing all over that giant lol

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: see, climb · To what, where: tiny dudes

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2051 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pygmies, part 10: a Pygmy spots a huge stranger coming and wakes the sleeping giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yo	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dudes	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dudes	amod
7	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
8	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 see	advcl
9	all	all	ADV	_	8 climbing	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 giant	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 giant	nsubj
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 climbing	obl
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · do-support	yo	the tiny dudes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dude=Stimulus
2	climb	gerund	yo not said here					over giant; all property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over giant=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

the stranger flew over the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stranger	det
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hill	det
6	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the stranger			the hill			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the giant was asleep in a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant			a cave		asleep property	tree rules

Option 3

the cranes ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cranes	det
2	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the cranes	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah but the stranger is coming for real, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 coming	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 coming	cc
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 real	case
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coming	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	the stranger	no cap				for real	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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